I am sorry if this have been mentioned in another reviews already. But why are the Nividia cards in these reviews still on 306.23 WHQL drivers? Shouldn't they be run on the latest WHQL(310.90) for fair comparison against 12.11 beta?

Nice. I have one since a month now. Feeling lucky since i saw bunch of people who got this card who's not working at all. Well just a bit scared because i had 4 or 5 time the blue asus bios logo with weird colors. But having no prob in game.

It was a pain to install driver because the 12.11 was not working. had to pass by the cd then switch to new beta. Well 13.1 are out today.

Just a bit disgusted when i saw sapphire confirming they are doing one with 2 fan just a few days after i ordered mine. Could not wait more, i switched from a cross 4770 and already waited when i saw the tahiti release.

Nice review W1zzard!
Tahiti LE HD 7870 may have an appealing price, but like was told, Power consumption values are tremendous high when compared to the direct competitor, GTX 660 Ti or even HD 7950.
I´m curious to see Power consumption comparison when highly overclocked above 1200MHz.
If they called it HD 7930, would be more logical, but in the other hand, XX30 cards have always been victims of criticism along the history, aka, Lame Edition.

Ah, Egg has the Myst is $240 -AR$20 shipping $3, while most GTX660Ti that are AIB customs (nicer than reference), but not the Über OC’s will range around $260-280 with rebates more often of $20.

While I appreciate the merits for size and power... are such things worth the 15% adder? I mean a reference GTX660Ti is 10” vs. the Myst 10.5” big whoop. While hard to compare a GTX660Ti reference card for it’s OC’n as I don’t remember many reviews for that design or many that did much in overclocking.

Perhaps the best GTX650Ti deal is the MSI N660TI-2GD5/OC, a comparable single fan cooler (utilizes just 2 H-P vs. Myst 3 H-P’s) that is $270 –AR$20 w/FS. Can’t find any reviews for this humble model so can’t say how it might OC, while it’s almost an inch shorter at 9.64”.

If I'm dropping $270 then I'm going for the Sapphire 7950 3Gb 384-bit with Booost clock (100352-2L) for $10 more and not mess with a 192-Bit 2Gb card. With it's dual fan and five H-P cooler it pretty well established for OC'n.

I just got the Powercolor version of this card and have been really happy with it so far, although I admit to being swayed by less thorough reviews (of the Powercolor card) on other sites that did not cover the horrible dual monitor power consumption. That may have changed my decision.

OC seems great, but the scaling is really bad in BF3? This is a pretty GPU intensive game, so it should scale well with OC? Is this because of the gimped memory bandwidth compared to the real Tahiti cards?

Anyway.

Can someone tell me what this card limits is in AMD Overdrive? aka OC in AMD Control Center

I would really like to know, since i won't be using 3rd party OC software.

Also. The Voltage is locked right? On Tahiti-LE cards.. I read that in some review.. But some ppl say its not locked?!